|
原創(chuàng) 歐陽敏 芒格書院 “反過來想，總是反過來想?！?/b> “我只想知道我將來會死在什么地方，這樣我就可以永遠不去那里啦?！?/b> “在手里拿著鐵錘的人看來，世界就像一顆釘子?！?/b> “我的劍留給能夠揮舞它的人。” 芒格老爺子不愧為金句大師，無論是在伯克希爾和Daily Journal年會上，還是在其他場合，還是在《窮查理寶典》一書中，都留下了眾多“一字道天機”的睿智名言，很多傳揚度都相當高。 但上面這幾句曝光度相當高的語句，卻并非出自芒格的原創(chuàng)。 而是來自他日常通過閱讀和實踐“復利”形成的深厚積累，來自眾多逝去偉人和集體常識留給他的普世智慧。彼得·考夫曼在《窮查理寶典》導讀部分說：“他（查理·芒格）擁有百科全書般的知識，所以從古代的雄辯家到18、19世紀的歐洲文豪，再到當代的流行文化偶像，這些人的名言他都能信手拈來?！?/p> 書院特意摘錄了一份芒格經(jīng)常引用的名言警句，以中英文對照形式呈現(xiàn)如下，借此與讀者一起，一窺芒格的智慧之源。
01 |
本杰明·富蘭克林 經(jīng)驗是一所好學校，但傻瓜卻不會從別人那里學到經(jīng)驗，并且，能在別人那里學到經(jīng)驗的人很少；因為這句話是千真萬確的：我們可以提供建議，但無法提供行為。 Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other and scarce in that; for it is true, we may give advice, but we cannot give conduct. ——本杰明·富蘭克林 02 | 空袋子很難豎起來。 It's hard for an empty sack to stand upright. ——本杰明·富蘭克林 03 | 一盎司的預防比一磅的治療更值錢。 An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. ——本杰明·富蘭克林 04 | 如果你想要說服別人，要訴諸利益，而非訴諸理性。 If you would persuade, appeal to interest and not to reason. ——本杰明·富蘭克林 05 | 如果你想要完成，就自己著手去做。如果不想，就讓別人去做。 If you want it done, go. If not, send. ——本杰明·富蘭克林 06 | 如果你不聽理性女神的話，她就會給你苦頭吃。 If you will not hear reason, she will surely rap your knuckles. ——本杰明·富蘭克林 07 | 小小紕漏，能沉大船。 A small leak will sink a great ship. ——本杰明·富蘭克林 08 | 這是能夠將你所有的鉛塊變成金塊的石頭……記住，錢是一種繁殖力特別強大的東西。錢會生錢子，錢子會生更多的錢孫。 ...tis the stone that will turn all your lead into gold. ... Remember that money is of a prolific generating nature. Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more. ——本杰明·富蘭克林 以上8條都源自富蘭克林，但芒格引用自富蘭克林的名言遠不止這些！關于《窮查理寶典》論及富蘭克林之處更詳盡的盤點，戳下方鏈接閱讀了解： 09 |
沃倫·巴菲特 我用一張考勤卡就能改善你最終的財務狀況；這張卡片上有20格，所以你只能有20次打卡的機會——這代表你一生中所能擁有的投資次數(shù)。當你把卡打完之后，你就再也不能進行投資了。在這樣的規(guī)則之下，你將會真正地慎重考慮你做的事情，你將不得不花大筆資金在你真正想投資的項目上。這樣你的表現(xiàn)將會好得多。 I could improve your ultimate financial welfare by giving you a ticket with only twenty slots in it so that you had twenty punches-representing all the investments that you get to make in a lifetime. And once you’d punched through the card, you couldn't make any more investments at all, Under those rules, you'd really think carefully about what you did, and you'd be forced to load up on what you’d really thought about. So you'd do so much better. ——沃倫·巴菲特 10 | 《聰明的投資者》仍是最好的投資書籍。它只有三個你們真正需要的思想：1.市場先生比喻；2.股票是企業(yè)的一部分；3.安全邊際。 The Intelligent Investor is still the best book on investing. It has the only three ideas you really need: l) The Mr Market analogy 2) A stock is a piece of a business 3) Margin of safety. ——沃倫·巴菲特 11 | 如果說我們有什么本事的話，那就是我們能夠弄清楚我們什么時候在能力圈的中心運作，什么時候正在向邊緣靠近。 If we have a strength, it is in recognizing when we are operating well within our circle of competence and when we are approaching the perimeter. ——沃倫·巴菲特 12 | 投資就像打棒球，你要讓記分牌上的得分增加，就必須盯著球場，而不是盯著記分牌。 In investing,just as in baseball,to put runs on the scoreboard,one must watch the playing field, not the scoreboard. ——沃倫·巴菲特 13 | 人們總是想要一道公式——但那樣是行不通的。你必須估算公司從現(xiàn)在到無限的將來能掙到的所有現(xiàn)金，再把它們折回到現(xiàn)值。像市盈率這樣的標尺本身是不夠的。 People always want a formula-but it doesn't work that way. You have to estimate total cash generated from now to eternity, and discount it back to today. Yardsticks such as P/Es are not enough by themselves. ——沃倫·巴菲特 14 | 所有的經(jīng)濟發(fā)展都會在規(guī)模越來越大的過程中鍛造出它們自己的數(shù)學鐵錨。 Economic progressions, as they grow larger, forge their own mathematical anchors. ——沃倫·巴菲特 15 | 亞伯拉罕·林肯曾經(jīng)問：“如果你把尾巴稱為腿，那么一只狗有幾條腿呢？四條。將尾巴稱為腿，并不能讓它就變成腿。”同樣地，會計師說你的養(yǎng)老基金能夠賺取9%的利潤，單憑這種說法并不能魔法般地讓你在未來擁有可靠的實際收益。 Abraham Lincoln once asked: 'How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn’t make it a leg.' Likewise, just because an actuary says you can earn 90%on pensionplan assets, it doesn’t magically alter the reality of your future liability. ——沃倫·巴菲特 16 | 我什么都讀：企業(yè)年報、10-K報表、10-Q報表、傳記、歷史書，每天還要讀五份報紙。在飛機上，我會閱讀座椅后背的安全指南。閱讀是很重要的。這么多年來，是閱讀讓我致富。 I read everything: annual reports, l0K's, l0Q's, biographies, histories, five newspapers a day. On airplanes,I read the instructions on the backs of the seats. Reading is key. Reading has made me rich over time. ——沃倫·巴菲特 17 |
本杰明·格雷厄姆 就短線投資而言，市場是一臺投票機器。 但就長線投資而言，它是一臺稱重機器。 In the short run, the market is a voting machine. But in the long run, it is a weighing machine. ——本杰明·格雷厄姆 18 | 最成功的投資必定是最像生意的投資。 Investment is most successful when it is most businesslike. ——本杰明·格雷厄姆 19 | 投資者購買股票應該像購買日用品，而不是像購買香水。 Investors should purchase stocks like they purchase groceries-not like they purchase perfume. ——本杰明·格雷厄姆 20 | 你是正確的或錯誤的，并不取決于大家是否同意你。你是正確的，是因為你的資料和推理是正確的。 You are neither right or wrong because the crowd disagrees with you. You are right because your data and reasoning are right. ——本杰明·格雷厄姆 21 | 安全邊際總是取決于付出的價格。它在某個價格會很大，在其他一些價格會很小，而價格更高時，它便不復存在。 The margin of safety is always dependent on the price paid. It will be large at one price, small at some other price, and nonexistent at some higher price. ——本杰明·格雷厄姆 22 | 無論你們多么聰明，總有一些更聰明的人，如果他們真的想騙你們，你們就會上當。所以，要確定與你們共事的聰明人值得你們信賴。 No matter how smart you are, there are smart people out there who can fool you if they really want to. So, be sure you can trust the smart people you work with. ——本杰明·格雷厄姆 23 |
卡爾·雅可比 “反過來想，總是反過來想?！?/p> Invert, Always Invert. ——卡爾·雅可比 24 |
弗里德里克·梅特蘭 簡單是長期努力工作的結果，而不是起點。 Simplicity is the end result of long, hard work, not the starting point. ——弗里德里克·梅特蘭 25 |
約翰·肯尼斯·加爾布雷思 當面臨要么改變想法、要么證明無需這么做的選擇時，絕大多數(shù)人都會忙于尋找證據(jù)。 Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof. ——約翰·肯尼斯·加爾布雷思 26 | 難道你不明白嗎，“讓一家企業(yè)停泊在廢話當中，和讓它駛入麻煩的思維之海比起來，是一種好得太多、太多的做法?！?/p> Do you understand 'it is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought’. ——約翰·肯尼斯·加爾布雷思 27 | 那些走運的人總是說他們過得幸福是因為他們的道德很高尚。 People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy. ——約翰·肯尼斯·加爾布雷思 28 |
托馬斯·亨利·赫胥黎 生活無非就是一個接一個的聯(lián)系。 Life is just one damn relatedness after another. ——托馬斯·亨利·赫胥黎 29 | 也許所有教育最有價值的結果是，當你不得不完成一件事情的時候，不管你是否喜歡它，你都有能力去完成這項必須的任務。這是每個人應該學的第一課，然而，無論一個人多早接受教育，這可能是他徹底學到的最后一課。 Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do. when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not. It is the first lesson that ought to be learned and however early a man’s training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.' ——托馬斯·亨利·赫胥黎 30 |
杰西·利弗莫爾 賺大錢的訣竅不在于買進賣出……而在于等待。 The big money is not in the buying and selling...but in the waiting. ——杰西·利弗莫爾 31 |
愛因斯坦 科學理論/一切應該盡可能簡單，但不能過于簡單。 A scientific theory/Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler. ——愛因斯坦 32 |
老托馬斯·沃森 我不是天才。我有幾點聰明，我只不過就留在這幾點里面。 I'm no genius. I'm smart in spots, and I stay around those spots. ——老托馬斯·沃森 33 |
哈維·費爾斯通 做生意時，最困難的事情是先讓你自己思考，再讓別人思考。 The most difficult thing in business is first getting yourself to thinking and then getting others to thinking. ——哈維·費爾斯通 34 | 我發(fā)現(xiàn)，如果一個人的全部信息都局限于他的工作領域，那么他的工作不會做得很好。一個人必須有眼光，他可以從書籍上或者人們身上 —最好是兩者兼有 —培養(yǎng)眼光。 I notice that when all a man’s information is confined to the field in which he is working, the work is never as good as it ought to be. A man has to get perspective, and he can get it from books or from people-preferably from both. ——哈維·費爾斯通 35 |
理查德·費曼 別愚弄你自己，記住，你是最容易被自己愚弄的人。 Never fool yourself, and remember that you are the easiest person to fool. ——理查德·費曼 36 |
約翰·費恩 大多數(shù)玩家從被群體接受或者從對群體的歸屬感中得到快樂。然而，好的玩家從他應付游戲里各種局面的能力中得到快樂。 Most players gain pleasure from feeling accepted or belonging to the group.The good player,however,gains pleasure from his abilities to cope with the realities of the game. ——約翰·費恩 37 |
約翰·繆爾 如果我們試圖理解一樣看似獨立存在的東西，我們將會發(fā)現(xiàn)它和宇宙間的其他一切都有聯(lián)系。 When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. ——約翰·繆爾 38 |
托馬斯·卡萊爾 人的任務不是去看清遠方模糊的東西，而是去做好身邊清楚的事情。 The task of a man is not to see what lies dimly in the distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand. ——托馬斯·卡萊爾 39 |
亞伯拉罕·林肯 能力會讓你到達巔峰，但只有品德才能讓你留在那里。 Ability will get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there. ——亞伯拉罕·林肯 40 |
威爾·羅杰斯 別賭博。用所有的儲蓄去購買一些好股票，等它價錢上漲再賣掉。如果它的價格不會上漲，那么你就別買它。 Don’t gamble. Take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. IF it don’t go up, don't buy it. ——威爾·羅杰斯 41 | 如果你認為你是一個有些影響力的人，試試看能不能指使別人的狗。 If you get to thinking you’re a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else’s dog around. ——威爾·羅杰斯 42 |
詹姆斯·塞內加爾 我們將要打造一家優(yōu)秀的公司，必須為長遠的利益考慮。我知道每個人都這么說，所以當我重復這句話的時候，我聽起來有點老調重彈，但那向來是我們對待我們公司的態(tài)度。如果我們做的事情都是正確的，那么股票的價格自然會好起來，我們的股東也將會得到很好的回報。 We are about building a good company and performing for the long term. I know everyone says that-that it sounds trite when I repeat it that way-but that is and has always been our attitude about our business. If we do the right things, the stock price will take care of itself and our shareholders will be rewarded. ——詹姆斯·塞內加爾 43 |
馬克·吐溫 抓住貓尾巴，把貓倒提起來的人，將會學到他在別的地方學不到的教訓。 A man who carries a cat by the tail, learns something he can learn in no other way. ——馬克·吐溫 44 | 識字不讀好書，等于白識字。 The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them. ——馬克·吐溫 45 |
約翰·梅納德·凱恩斯 介紹新觀念倒不是很難，難的是清除那些舊觀念。 It's not bringing in the new ideas that's so hard, It's getting rid of the old ones. ——約翰·梅納德·凱恩斯 46 | 世俗智慧告訴我們，循規(guī)蹈矩的失敗比離經(jīng)叛道的成功更能帶來好名聲。 Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally. ——約翰·梅納德·凱恩斯 47 |
艾薩克·牛頓 如果說我比其他人看得更遠，那是因為我站在巨人的肩膀上。 If I have seen a little farther than other men. it is because I stood on the shoulders of giants. ——艾薩克·牛頓 48 | 如果說我曾發(fā)現(xiàn)什么有價值的原理，那應該歸功于我的耐心觀察，而非其他才能。 If I have ever made any valuable discoveries,it has been due more to patient attention,than to any other talent. ——艾薩克·牛頓 49 | 沒有大膽的猜想，就沒有偉大的發(fā)現(xiàn)。 No great discovery was ever made with a bold guess. ——艾薩克·牛頓 50 |
愛比克泰德 此處埋著愛比克泰德，一個奴隸，身體殘疾，極其窮困，蒙受諸神的恩寵。 Here lies Epictetus, a slave, maimed in body, the ultimate in poverty, and favored by the gods. ——愛比克泰德 51 | 人若控制不了自己，自由便無從談起。 No man is free who is not master of himself. ——愛比克泰德 52 | 困擾人們的并非事物，而是他們對事物的看法。 People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them. ——愛比克泰德 53 | 要和那些比你優(yōu)秀的人為伴，他們能促使你做得最好。 The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best. ——愛比克泰德 54 | 富裕并非擁有許多財產，而是擁有很少需求。 Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants. ——愛比克泰德 55 |
安東尼·特羅洛普 求學之道無坦途，問藝之路無捷徑。 There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art. ——安東尼·特羅洛普 56 |
帕斯卡 人類的頭腦既是宇宙的光榮，也是宇宙的恥辱。 The mind of man at one and the same time is both the glory and the shame of the universe. ——帕斯卡 57 |
羅伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森 我們遇到的所有人都是善與惡的結合體。 All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil. ——羅伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森 58 |
杰克·韋爾奇 讓它見鬼去吧。我們必須在每個我們涉足的領域做到第一或第二，否則我們就退出。我不會在乎要解雇多少人，賣掉哪些業(yè)務。如果做不到第一或第二，我們寧可不做。 To hell with it. We're either going to be #l or #2 in every field we're in or we're going to be out. I don't care how many people I have to fire and what I have to sell. We're going to be #1 or #2 or out. ——杰克·韋爾奇 59 |
山姆·沃爾頓 以前我既天真又無知，但那是很幸運的事情，因為正是有過這段無知的日子，我才學到了一個這么多年來一直牢記在心的教訓：你可以向每個人學習。我的知識不僅來自手頭可以找到的每一本零售業(yè)刊物，更多的可能來自我對馬路對面（競爭對手）做法的研究。 It was a real blessing for me to be so green and ignorant, because it was from that experience that I learned a lesson which has stuck with me through all the years: you can learn from everybody. I didn't just learn from reading every retail publication I could get my hands on, I probably learned the most from studying what (my competitor)was doing across the street. ——山姆·沃爾頓 60 |
查爾斯·達爾文 能夠生存下來的物種不是最強的，也不是最聰明的，而是最能適應變化的。 It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. ——查爾斯·達爾文 61 |
德摩斯梯尼 一個人想要什么，就會相信什么。 What a man wishes, that also will he believe。 ——德摩斯梯尼 62 |
馬克斯·普朗克 科學無法解決終極的自然之謎。那是因為歸根到底，我們本身正是我們試圖解決的謎團的一部分。 Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve. ——馬克斯·普朗克 63 | 真理追求者之所以感到幸福，是因為他們的追求過程終于獲得了成功，而不是因為他們終于擁有了真理。 It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him. ——馬克斯·普朗克 64 |
蕭伯納 歸根到底，每個職業(yè)都是蒙騙外行人的勾當。 In the last analysis, every profession is a conspiracy against the laity. ——蕭伯納 65 |
阿爾弗雷德·諾斯·懷特海 傻瓜徒有想象力，而缺乏知識；學究空有知識，但缺乏想象力。 Fools act on imagination without knowledge; pedants act on knowledge without imagination. ——阿爾弗雷德·諾斯·懷特海 66 | “愚蠢”的問題是全新的發(fā)展的開端。 The 'silly’ question is the first intimation of some totally new development. ——阿爾弗雷德·諾斯·懷特海 67 | 未來屬于那些能夠擺脫地球束縛而上升的人。 The future belongs to those who can rise above the confines of the earth. ——阿爾弗雷德·諾斯·懷特海 68 |
叔本華 一切重要的圖書都應該立即重讀。 Any book, which is at all important, should be reread immediately. ——叔本華 69 |
賈雷德·戴蒙德 我總是對許多事情感興趣，同時對許多事情感興趣，我總是試圖向我自己解釋這些事情。我提出了許多問題。 l've always been interested in a lot of things, and a lot of things at the same time, and I always tried to explain them to myself. I ask a lot of questions. ——賈雷德·戴蒙德 70 |
塞繆爾·約翰遜 翻讀你的文章，如果遇到一段你認為特別漂亮的文字，就把它劃出來。 Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out. ——塞繆爾·約翰遜 71 |
赫伯·斯坦因 如果一件事情無法永遠延續(xù)下去，它最后就會停下來。 If a thing can't go on forever, it will eventually stop. ——赫伯·斯坦因 72 |
西塞羅 如果你對自己出生之前的事情毫不了解，那么你永遠都是一個無知的孩童。因為人生如果不是對于歷史密不可分的往事的記憶，又能是什么呢？ To be ignorant of what happened before you were born is to be ever a child.For what is man's lifetime unless the memory of past events is woven with those of earlier times? ——西塞羅 73 |
迪安·艾奇遜 未必要有希望才能堅持。 It's not necessary to hope in order to persevere. ——迪安·艾奇遜 74 |
湯姆·墨菲 如果你覺得罵人是很好的主意，你可以留到明天再罵。 You can always tell the man off tomorrow if it is such a good idea. ——湯姆·墨菲 75 |
第歐根尼 從來不得罪人的哲學家有什么用呢？ Of what use is a philosopher who never offends anybody? ——第歐根尼 76 |
查爾斯·狄更斯 我戴著我在生活中鍛造的鎖鏈。 I wear the chains I forged in life. ——查爾斯·狄更斯 77 |
杰里·平克尼 那我就自己來吧。 Then I'll do it myself. ——杰里·平克尼 78 |
約翰·班揚 我的劍傳給能揮舞它的人。 My sword I leave to him who can wield it. ——約翰·班揚 79 | 說真話，你將無須記住你的謊言。 If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember your lies. ——路易斯·文森狄 80 | 需要新的機器而尚未購買的公司，其實已經(jīng)在為它花錢了。 The company that needs a new machine tool, and hasn't bought it, is already paying for it. ——華納及史瓦塞公司廣告語 81 | 沒有面包就沒有法律，沒有法律就沒有面包。 Where there’s no bread, there’s no law;where there’s no law,there’s no bread. ——艾利沙·本·阿薩里亞拉比 82 | 我只想知道我將來會死在什么地方，這樣我就可以永遠不去那里啦。 All I want to know is where I'm going to die, so I'll never go there. ——民間故事 83 | 誰給我面包吃，我就給誰唱歌。 Whose bread I eat, his song I sing. ——民間諺語 84 | 在手里拿著鐵錘的人看來，世界就像一顆釘子。 To the man with a hammer, the world looks like a nail. ——民間諺語 85 | 人永遠不會忘記自己做過的壞事. A man never forgets where he has buried the hatchet. ——民間諺語 86 | 人生就像懸掛式滑翔，起步?jīng)]有成功就完蛋啦。 If at first you don't succeed, well, so much for hang gliding. ——現(xiàn)代諺語 87 | 師父領進門，修行靠個人。 Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself. ——中國諺語 88 | 我們老得太快，聰明得太遲。 We are too soon old and too late smart. ——德國諺語 編輯：梁啟越 視覺：肖晉興 |
|
|
